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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1971
Page
1
Partly cloudy conditions with a chance of thundershowers and highs near 90. Extended outlook through Wednesday shows low to mid 80s by day and low 80s at night with best shower chances Monday. Local notices include hospital staff acknowledgments, births, dismissals, and police and court reports from Audrain County.
Instant News reports Phnom Penh will start negotiations next week on pulling South Vietnamese troops from Cambodia after widespread looting and brutality by Sai gon soldiers. Relations with Vietnam have been strained though both governments claim to oppose lawlessness.
A Missouri court scheduled a forfeiture hearing after defendants suspended, failed to appear, and defaulted or high bond. Willis L. Davis and L. Davis faced a judgment of 87.47 dollars for delinquent income tax. Over the counter trading showed A B Chance at 20 percent bid 30 percent asked, Commerce Bancshares 47 percent bid 49 percent asked, Wetterau 27 percent bid 27 percent asked. On the New York Stock Exchange Robbie Brooks rose 16 percent with 20 400 shares traded, Dresser Industries up 144 with 4414 shares, Interco up 4 3500, Kaiser Aluminum up 30 with 6600, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline up 44 with 6700, Ralston Purina up 134 with 25 600, US Gypsum common up 3 with 13 500, US Gypsum preferred up 44 with 2800.
Paul Laird 54 died in Kansas City this morning. Body at Schlanker Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Sunday. Funeral 2 p.m. Monday conducted by Rev. Thomas Smith of Montgomery City Christian Church. Burial in Benton City Cemetery. Born Jan. 15, 1917 in Montgomery City. Survived by mother, wife Elizabeth, daughter Linda Tye, four stepchildren, two grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Kirkwood for Shirley Seifert 83 who died Tuesday. A writer of historical novels she was Pulitzer Prize nominated for one work and a niece of Frank R. Sanford and Nelle Sanford. Survivors include sisters Adele Seifert and Elizabeth Gasparotti.
Charles Koen of Cairo Illinois, 26, was paroled from a six month city work house sentence by Circuit Judge David A McMullan. The United Front director begun a fast last July 19 after a verdict for assaulting a St Louis policeman. Koen will live at home during a one year parole and must avoid public appearance without court notice. His supporters say he faced possible danger from his hunger strike as his weight dropped from about 170 to just over 100 pounds.
Virgil Steele, a jackhammer operator, was knocked from a three foot hole when his hammer hit a 13,900 volt underground line. Power to San Bernardino City Hall was out for 49 minutes before he returned to work an hour later. Steele quipped that luck isn’t a factor, it wasn’t his time to go.
Poage proposes tying farm worker wages to parity levels and government subsidy to price support gaps. If prices rise, farmer share climbs. if prices fall, government costs rise. Also notes trash pickup will occur Monday with the landfill closed.
West Berlin residents react cautiously to the Big Four accord aimed at easing East West tension. They foresee visits to East Berlin and easier travel through West Germany, though final rules are pending. A Berlin woman born in Poland spoke of reuniting with school friends and reaching the Baltic Sea near her birthplace. The pact covers free movement, a Soviet consular presence, and unimpeded overland traffic, but concerns linger of being sold out.
The Mexico Optimists Youth Rifle Club invites interested students aged 12 to 18 to sign up at the Mexico Youth Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The meeting welcomes last year’s members and new joiners for this season of competitive 22 rifle shooting and safety training taught by instructor Bill Cearly at the National Guard Armory.
A federal grand jury indicted John W. Price and Garry J. Seal on civil rights violations for beating a black postal employee, George Smith, at Clearwater Lake Reynolds County on May 29 after spotting him with a white woman. Both defendants, from Piedmont and Cape Girardeau, were released on $1,000 bond each. they face up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Thomas F. Hagan retires after 25 years with Kaiser Refractories. An avid fisherman, he plans to travel with his wife Mary and enjoy their large garden. Since 1946 he held various jobs in shipping and served as a car boxer from September 1969 to June 1971.
At McCormick Place 25,000 dairy industry members feasted on nine tons of beef and 25,000 slices of Wisconsin cheddar as President Nixon addressed the crowd. The American Milk Producers Inc funded meals, transport, and lodging, with festivities costing about four million dollars. Nixon recalled wartime service and thanked dairy farmers for productive America.
In Northern Ireland a British soldier died after his Jeep hit a mine near Newry, with two others injured. A Newry drapery shop firebomb killed a civilian, while 18 month old Angela Gallagher was shot in Belfast. IRA involvement denied by Provisional IRA. sectarian violence denounced by Prime Minister Brian Faulkner.
Funeral services were held today at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Ida Pearl Wilkerson 81 of 1114 E Holt St. Rev. Alvin McBride and Rev. William Duncan officiated with burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were nephews of Mrs Wilkerson and flower girls included multiple local women.
Gladstone Missouri residents approved a bar measure Friday by a 1144 to 697 vote. The suburb of Kansas City previously rejected a similar proposal four years earlier by about two to one.
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